I’m a logic puzzle fan from way back. When other kids might have been reading comic books, I was working through issues of Games magazine or my logic puzzle books. When my own kids were little, I ...

As an academic discipline, logic is the study of reasoning. Logic puzzles, therefore, involve solving problems by making a series of inferences and assessing these using reasoning. Sounds easy, right?

We are hardly ever consciously aware that we use logic to solve everyday problems. But what is logic? Is the logic used to prove theorems in mathematics the same kind that we use for our practical ...

The word logic comes from Greek lógos, where it meant both “reasoning” and “word.” The Greeks were clearly aware of the relation between logic and language, coining the perfect term for it. So, in a ...